I am a clean freak – sometimes. Since Clem the Dachshund sheds, and since I live in a 9th floor high rise, I have accepted that dust and dirt are my always companions. But Clem is allergic to dust, so I clean as often as I can, realizing that the harsh chemicals are not helping his severe allergies at all. When polly cloth came across my desk marked USE ME I did …. And I felt like Scheherazade had visited my house with a Clean Story to keep the King of Dirt at bay (hey, I’m a literary ... continue reading...
ON A MISSION to Clean America One Polly at a time!
7 Techniques For Keeping Your Stress Level Low
7 Techniques For Keeping Your ‘Thought Life’ Healthy And Your Stress Level Low Life gives people plenty of reasons to be stressed. Relationship problems, child-rearing issues, job woes and a lack of money are just some of life’s complications that can weigh people down – and cause health problems. “It’s difficult to stay healthy and energized when stress is a daily reality,” says, Dr. Greg Wells author of The Ripple Effect: Eat, Sleep, Move and Think Better. “Chronic stress can damage ... continue reading...
Book review: Being a Beast
Being a Beast Adventures Across the Species Divide Author: Charles Foster Alluring. Ethereal. Other worldly. Mythic, mandatory, factual, philosophical. Oh, and Charles Foster should be married to a dictionary!! Such great writing! And such solid inquiry into cross species “beingness” (sentience). Being a Beast is one of those special once in a great moon books that held me in thrall. As I escaped past the last page, I felt so utterly sad that I jumped back into the first page again. ... continue reading...
Here I Am – a review
Here I Am Author: Jonathan Safran Foer John Updike. Philip Roth. Peter Taylor. Alice Munro. Jonathan Safran Foer Writers who gift us with families who thrum within their own family universe, then bounce back to us like an echo. I adore Jonathan Foer. Eating Animals enchanted and mesmerized me. Timeframe: One month. Location: Washington D.C., Israel Characters: The Bloch family, Jacob, Julia, Sam, Max, Benjy and the Israeli cousin, Tamir, Irv, the granda, Deborah, the grandma, ... continue reading...
Book review: Prodigals by Greg Jackson
Prodigals Stories by Greg Jackson With declaratory language succinct as to appear insouciant, Greg Jackson thrusts us into his inner worlds in Prodigals. The first short story, Wagner in the Desert, seems to be semi-autobiographical and tells the tale of a mélange of friends partying as hard as they can and discovering mystical things out of the ordinary. Sometimes, however, the characters posture too much and Jackson’s language slows the action to a complete halt as we titillate over a ... continue reading...
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